Comments on: Shame On You, Spanish Olympic Team

By: ninanyc

ninanyc — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:56:32 +0000

Lin, I appreciate your insight as an Asian living in Taiwan. I was curious how the gesture would be received elsewhere, so thanks for your input.

However, regarding your last statement, people in the west can be more sensitive to issues involving race because we live in places where no single color or ethnicity undoubtedly makes up the majority of the population. Since we are more conscious and aware of such differences, real problems with race and discrimination occur more often. Therefore, “little things” like this don’t seem so little.

By: Lin

Lin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:50:10 +0000

It seems to me that western-born and/or western-raised asians seem to care about this a lot more than those of us that are actually from there. In Taiwan, we don’t care at all about this. Actually, most of us think it is a pretty funny picture. The mainland news outlets do not care much either.

I guess we just have more real things to worry about. It must be nice to have no worries so little things like this seem important.

By: Mtz

Mtz — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:10:16 +0000

If there is anything I learned this summer, it’s that Europeans can be incredibly racist. I don’t think it is just Spaniards against asians.

By: MinorityMilitant

MinorityMilitant — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:31:49 +0000

Another one bites the dust!

By: Angelo

Angelo — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:50:17 +0000

I can’t believe these fools did this. I saw this the other day. Made me so mad!!